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KMID : 0882420070730060661
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Korean Journal of Medicine
2007 Volume.73 No. 6 p.661 ~ p.665
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A case of non-small cell lung cancer that metastasized to the gingiva
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Woo Jong-Shin
Maeng Chi-Hoon
Lee Jae-Jin
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Abstract
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About 5% of all malignancies involve the oral cavity. Metastatic cancers to the oral cavity from distant sites are very rare, and only a few cases have been reported in the clinical literature. The most common tumors that metastasize to the oral cavity originate in the breast, lung, and kidney. We recently experienced a patient who had a non-small cell lung cancer that metastasized to the gingiva. The patient was 56-year-old man. The disease status was a progressive condition, although the patient had received third-line chemotherapy. The patient had multiple bony metastases including vertebral bodies, femurs, and clivus as well as the gingival metastasis. The gingival tumor was histopathologically diagnosed as a poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma. The metastatic gingival tumor had the same pathology as the primary lung cancer
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KEYWORD
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Non-small cell lung cancer, Gingiva, Metastasis
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